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Prohibi,tonists Gathering.

CHICAGO, Nov. 3O.-Five hundred
workers in the prohibition cause
gathered in battery D, this morning at
the session of the National Central
committee of the prohibition party.
The galleries Of the great hall were hung
with immense notices representing
the principles Of the party. Among
the more prominent of the
leaders were Ex-Governor John
p. st. John of Kansas, Frances E. Will
lard of Illinois, Mother Stewart of Ohio
and DR.. A. J. Jutkins of Chicago. d.
p. Sangendorf. vice chairman of New
York, was in the chair. ALI the states
and territories were represented by
delegates with the exception
of Arizona. Arkansas, Cali
fornia, Delaware, Florida, Geor-
gia, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine
Massachusetts,, Mississippi, Nevada,
New Hampshire, New Mexico, South
Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington
Territory and Wyoming Territory
The delegates at large were Miss
Willard of Illinois, A. a. Hopkins of
New York, and Mother Stewart of
Ohio. Up to ten o'clock no business
had been transacted, the whole time of
the committee being taken up in
examining credentials.
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DARKIHS DELIGHTED.
Atlanta Negroes Will Take Advan-
tage of the Power Gained
During the Prohibition Contest and
Will Run for Office.
The Whites Excited Over the Pro
posed Step.
The Standard Oil Co.'s Grand Trunk
Pipe Line.
A Movement on Foot to Give Ives Con
troll of the Oh. & D.

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 30.-The prom
inent recognition given the negroes dur
ing the prohibition campaign has in
spired their leaders to essay roles of
more distinction in local politics. They
hardened to the orators of the respect
i've parties, who took occasion to iIn-
press them with the Importance of their
position, and before the question has
been officially settled the negroes have
announced themselves as candidates
for the city council. This is but the
outgrOwth of the assurances given
them by the anti prohibitionists in re-
turn for their support of the wet
ballot. At least this is what the
prohibitionists are claiming. The
movement has created considerable
feeling among the white people and es-
specially among the prohibitionists
who attribute this extraordinary step
on the part of the negroes to the en-
couragement gwen them by the ants.
The negroes will vote solidly for the
candidate of their color and it would
not be surprising to see one at least
elected to the city council, which is
composed of but six members.
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lucky, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee,
Ohio and Missouri produce "a per cent
of the total tobacco crop of the United
States, it will be seen that the
summary is of general interest.
The following are the main
points of the article. The western leaf
crop foots up 76,000,0 900 pounds or 26
per cent. of the recent averages, and
the eastern leaf crop ~, 000, 600 pounds,
or so per cent. decrease. The eastern
and western leaf crops and all the mar
ket stocks of the United States make
up $50, 000, 900 pounds, against 591,-
600, 900 year ago, and 575, 200, 600 two
years ago. The supply from the new
crops and market stocks falls 211 ,O0O,-
900 pounds below the late average tax
en- up for domestic and foreign con-
sumption, while in 1886 there was q
surplus of 23,000,000 pounds, and
in 1885 surplus of "A ,000,000 pounds.
The western barley crop is 81 200, 900
pounds and the dark and heavy crop
SO, 10000 In conclusion the review
states in this historical year of the to-
bacco trade Louisville has much more
than maintained her former pre-emi-
nence as the principal tobacco market
of the United States; and indeed of the
world. The business done here in 1887
materially surpasses in magnitude that
of all other years, including that of the
jubilee year 1885.
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CINCINNATI, Nov. 30.-The trial of
E. l.. Harper was resumed to-day in
the United States court a long time
after the appointed hour, owing to the
absence of a juror, who obtained leave
last night to go home and arrange his
business. The first witness was J. w.
Hoyt, a broker of this city, whose testi-
mony gave in detail numerous tIansac-
lions in the buying of wheat in Chicago
bv him. When asked for whom he
was acting. he answered that B. E.
Hopkins, the assistant cashier of the
Fidelity bank. made the purchases, but
the settlements we're always made by
E. L. Harper. These transactions be-
gan in January. They were ordinary
spectators purchases. where no wheat
is ever seen. but settlements are made
accordidg to how the market runs.
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Of a fight will we have at Big Shanty?
If the train is left guarded during break
fast time we will have to overcome the
guards; if anybody sees US going on the
engine, and rush is made to prevent, we
will have TO fight sharply and at close
quarters-the most deadly kind of fight
ing" Every revolver had been carefully
examined at Marietta before we slept and
every preparation made, so there was
nothing to do but to wait as patiently as
we could.
1t was a thrilling moment when the
conductor called out, 'fBig Shantyl twenty
minutes for breakfast and we could see
the white tents of the rebel troops and
even the guards slowly pacing their beats.
Big Shanty NOW called Kenesaw) had
been selected for the seizure because it
was breakfast station, and because it
had no telegraph office. When Andrews
had been here on the previous expedition,
few troops were seen, but the number was
now greatly increased. 1t Is difficult to
tell Just how many were actually here,
for they were constantly coming and
going; but there seems to have been three
or four regiments, numbering not far
from 1000 men each. They were en-
camped almost entirely on the west side
OF the road, but their camp guard included
the railroad depot. AS soon as the train
stopped, the conductor, engineer, fireman,
and most of the passengers hurried for
breakfast into the long low shed on the
east side of the road, which gave the place
its name. No guard whatever was left
fortunate circumstance for US, but not
at all unusual on southern roads even
when not so well guarded by soldiers as
this train was. Now was our opportu-
nifty! yet for a moment we were COM
PEELED to keep our seats and wait the ap-
pointed signal by our leader. 1t required
ing forward. We had no desire for eating
as we saw the passengers leaving their
seats around us and pouring in to break
fast. The moments seemed hours; for we
knew that when the signal was given, we
must do our work in less than half min
ute or be slaughtered on the spot; we also
knew that any one Of us who failed to get
on board with the rest would be lost; but
we did not know how long during the
twenty minutes Andrews would wait. II
anything could be gained by waiting five
or ten minutes we were sure that he, with
his marvellous GOODNESS, would wait and
expect us to do the same. 1t seemed al
ready considerable interval, for the last
passenger who wanted breakfast had left
the train and disappeared within the
room.
But Andrews did not mean delay. He
had been absent from the car for time as
we came up the road and had only just
returned, and taken his seat close to the
door. Now he quietly rose, and without
turning his head toward us, stepped to
the door with the crowd that was pouring
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CHAPTER 1.
THR ANDREWS RAID REACHES THE HEART
OF THE CoNFEDERACY.

THE ANDREWS RAID REACHES THE HEART
OF THE CoNFEDERACY.
At Nashville, in March, 1862. while Gen.
d. G. Buell. commanded the Army of the
Ohio, spy in his employ, j. j. Andrews,
proposed to him to take eight men and
destroy some of the principal bridges far
to the south, on one or more important
Confederate railway lines. Buell. con-
scented and gave the men; but though the
daring spy took his men to Atlanta, Ga,
the enterprise failed from the absence OF
a Confederate railroad engineer whose
help had been promised. The men, with
Andrews, succeeded in reaching the
Union lines again in safety, at Murfrees-
boro and Shelbyville.
These points were then under the COM
mand of Gen. o. NJ. Mitchell, the celebrated
astronomer, who had been detached with
1000 men from the army of Buell. for the
purpose of guarding Nashville on that side,
and of intiicting any injury in his power
upon the enemy. The report OF Andrews,
who brought full information Of the condi-
ton of the enemy south and east Of mitchell,
probably confirmed the daring schemes he
was already entertaining, and between
them they arranged for the boldest push
of the war. What they meant to do may
best be inferred from what they actually
did. Mitchell moved his whole division to
Shelbyville, Tenn, and prepared to move
rapidly and secretly upon the line of the
enemy's communications directly south
ward. To Andrews he gave authority to
take from twenty-four TO thirty volunteers
probably a man from each company Of
the I'd, 21st and SD Ohio regiments. The
twenty-three of these who reported were
dressed IL ordinary suits in place Of their
uniforms, Supplied with side arms only
and with an abundance OF Confederate
money, and met their leader in a lonely
wooded spot at night near the Union
picket line. Here he directed them to
break into small squads, and getting into
the rough and unguarded country in the
Cumberland range of mountains, proceed
by unfrequented routes across the noun
tains to different stations on railroads far
within the Confederate lines, where no
guards were placed and where travel was
as yet free and unrestricted by passports
or o her dangerous formalities. Then it
would be easy to reach any part OF the
south. II questioned while on the way
they were to state that they were from
Fleming county, KY, on their way south
to escape Yankee" tyranny and to join
the Southern army.
Fleming county was the home of An
drews, and there is q thread Of tender and
pitiful romance connecting 1t with his
nAmc which the writer learned on the
spot from parties concerned many years
after. Andrews loved, wooed and won a
Kentucky lady OF that vicinity-Miss
Elizabeth j. Layton-who, like himself,
was an ardent Unionist. She was de-
scribed to mo by neighbors as not strik-
ingly beautiful, but attractive and esti-
mable. Before their marriage the war
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CHAPTER III.
WE CAPTURE THE TRAIN.


The Andrews party were greatly crowd
ed in the large hotel at Marietta on Fri
day night, having to sleep three or four to
q bed, but soldiers are not fastidious, and
the greater number slept soundly. We
had unbounded confidence in our leader,
whose part it was to provide for all con-
tingencies.
The names OF the men who reached Ma
rietta to take part in the railroad raid
were as follows:
James ]. Andrews, leader of the expe-
dition and citizen of Kentucky.
The Second Ohio regiment contributed:
Marion A. Ross, Company A; George
D. Wilson, Company B; William Pitten-
ger, Company G; Perry G. Shadrack,
Company X.
From the Twenty-first Ohio regiment
were detailed:
Mark Wood, Company C; ]. A Wilson,
Company C.; j. r. Porter, Company G;
William knight, Company E; Wilson f.
Brown, Company F; Wilson Bensinger,
Company G; Robert Buffum, Company
H; E. H. Mason, Company Ki John Scott,
Company K.
The Thirty-third Ohio supplied:
Martin ]. Hawkins, Company A; VIII
! lam Reddich, Company B; John Wollam,
Company C; Samuel Robinson, Company
G.; D. A. Dorsey, Company H; jacob
PARROT, Company X; Samuel Slayens
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sharpe Gets a New Trial.

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Jacob Sharp
has been granted a new trial. The
court of appeals has reversed the de-
cision in the Sharp case and ordered
new trial. When the news of the de-
cision reached the county court house
it created considerable stir among the
lawyers. In the numerous courts the
general opinion seemed to be one of
approval. Mr.. Clark, law partner of
Congressman Bourke Cochran, on re-
ceiving the news at once started for
Ludlow street jail, but he first saw
Mrs. Sharp. She cried with joy as she
broke the news to her husband. He
manifested no emotion whatever and
seems even to take but little interest in
the matter. Since his conviction he
has fallen into moody, stolid state of
indifference TO all outward things.
from which it seems impossible to
arouse him.
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ton was being relentlessly enforced, and
1t was assumed that all travellers who
could not give a good account Of them
selves were fleeing from it. At Marietta
we spent the night, intending to capture
our train In the morning in a camp of
the enemy's and making our way
northward, burn the bridges, which
constituted the object that had brought
us more than 200 miles away from the
nearest Union forces. But everything
had worked well so far, and we were very
hODeful
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LIstie Surprised.

NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-District At
torney elect John B. Fellows said to-
day that he was little surprised at
the decision of the court of appeals in
the Sharpe case with the five points of
testimony which the court of appeals
had ruled out. but there was enough
evidence left to convict Sharpe. He
could not tell when he would try Sharpe
until after he saw an official copy of the
opinion of the court OF appeals If,
after he had seen that, he came to the
conclusion that conviction could still
be secured, Sharpe would be the first
Of the boodleTs tried.
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At Chicago.

CHICAGO, III, NOV. %, 1851.
HOGs-Receipts, 5000 head; market fairly
active and firm and So I0c higher; light, LIS
45.00; rough packing. -. 7O0b5.00; mixed and
heavy packing and shipping, S5.G5d5-5G.
CATTLE-Receipts, 9.50e head; market was
steady TO strong; beeves. s3.0015.25; cows,
81 2562 50: stockers and feeders, s1-50G3.I0
sHKEP-Reeeipts, :. 600 head: market steady
common. S2.2J0440: lambs, 8 7JG5.50.
WHEAT-Strong and higher; No. cash, 1914
January. IKE; May. Sc
CoRN-Steady; cash. 465sc; January, 40 1916;
May, 51Izc.
23zc: May, S1zc.
PosK-Steady: January, S14.6O; May, $3.50
LARD-Steady; cash, S7-25; January, s7.35;
May, 500.
WHIsRY-zI1e.
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ROaIly Muraered.

CHLLICorHE, o., Nov. 3O.-Yester-
day morning two hunters, passing the
cabin OF Leonard Blessing, bachelor
81 years old, living by himself in the
hills of Huntington township, saw the
door open and entering found the old
man lying on the floor lifeless. The
ceroneras examination showed that
four ribs and the collar bone were
broken and the lungs crushed. Evil
IDENTIFY case Of murder.
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Ftshermen DrOwned.

ERIE. Penn, Nov. 30.-James Nc
Laughlin and Robert Pryor, fishermen
were drowned about half d mile off
shore of Pressure Isle to-day. They
started out early this morning and
pulled their nets, making such large
haul that the boat was laden nearly to
the waters edge. A wind rising causd
the boat to pitch heavily and every
lurch caused her to ship large quanti-
ties of semi-liquid ice. When half a
mile out an unusually heavy foe drove
large block of ice into the boat and
she slid under, disappearing from view.
The men were soon OYercOme by cold.
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Tsbaeeo situstfon.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 26.-The
Courier-Journal this morning publishes
. comprehensive valuable review of the
leaf tobacco situation, showing the
facts of the yield and supply against
the averages of consumption. When
it is considered that Kentucky produces
IS per cent of the total leaf tobacco
crop OF the United States and Ken
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STOCK AND PRODUCE
At Kansas CITY.

KANSAS CITY. Mo, No. %, IBS7.
ES-The Kansas City Live Stock Market II
reported especially for the EMPoRIA DAILY
NEWS by FISH, KICK CO, Exchange build
ing, Kansas City Stock Yards
CATTLE-Receipts, =, 400 head; market was
steady.
and Joe higher; bulk, s4.9O15.00; tops, $50:
heavy packers and shippers, s5l0Og5.10; mixed
packers, 81 .gD1I5O0.
The Daily Indicator reports:
WHEAT-NarSet steady; No. soft, cash,
CSC bid; January, 121zc bid, axe asked: May,
TSIzc bid. 7S5<c asked
CoRS-Stronger; No. 2 cash, 401zc bid, ZIG
asked: December, 40slc bid; January. size
bid. 42c asked; May, 44ssc bid, 44z6c asked.
OATs-No. 9 cash, 245zc bid. &c asked
RYE-No. cash, 47c bid no offerings.
EGGs-Unchanged; 2Oc per dozen
BUTTER-Fancy creamery, &c; good cream
cry, &c.
HAY-Faney small baled, $50.
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ing q very profitable trade and furnishing
them plausible excuse for his frequent
passages from one side OF the military
line to the other. He gained the entire
confidence OF the southern officers, and
was able to travel at his will through
their territory. To the Union officers he
reported all his operations and brought
them information of priceless value. 1t
was this acquaintance with the south
which alone rendered possible the daring
expeditions he meditated.
But the dangerous business in which he
was engaged was a great source OF grief
and apprehension to his promised bride;
and through her persuasions he was in
duced to pledge her that when he sue
ceeded in one more enterprise he would
retire from the deadly dangers which are
the daily company OF q spy; and with that
understanding their wedding day had
been fixed for some date near the middle
of June, 1852. The expedition which was
to be his last was this raid upon which we
were now engaged.
The writer and the men with him, as
well as the other squads, directed their
course first eastward till well In the
mountains, and then southwark, meeting
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AT. st. Louis,

81. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 30, 1887.
CATTLE-Reeeipts 800 head: market steady.
HoGS-Receipts, $50 head; market stron6:
choice heavy natives and butchers, S59On
- 5014-95.
sHEEP-Receipts. 100 head; firm
WHEAT-Ie higher; No. red, cash. 76a7Tc:
December. 761zc; January, 765fc: May, sIzc
CoRS-Firnn; cash, Axe; December, z5lc,
nominal: January, 4zs5c; May, 971<c.
oATs-Cash. 2sg@sAc; May, aHc.
EARD-S700.
NBIsRY-sl.e5.
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One Fact

Is worth a column of rhetoric, said an
American statesman. 1t is a fact,
established by the testimony of
thousands Of people, that Hoods Sar-
saparilla does cure scrofula. salt rheuIn,
and other diseases or affections aris-
ing from impure state or low condition
Of the blood. It also overcomes that
tired feeling, creates a good appetite,
and gives strength to every part of the
system, Try it.
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List of letters uncalled for and remaining in
the postoffice at Emporia, Kansas, for the
week ending Nov 81, 1887. Please give the date
of advertisement when calledfO
Adams, Miss Flora Mcclure, ID P-2
Allen, DIR + E McGeorge, Mr.
Baby. Miss Fife Miles, a X
Bort, NJ f. Miller, Mrs Kate
Brown. Charlie Montgomery, james
Burdly, n w Moore. Miss Jessie 81
Burns. Fronie, tcoldD O'Rourk. Luinie
Campbell VIM f Patterson, Mr.
Cochran. Miss n Patterson, Chas
Coleman, Mrs Mamie Phillips. Miss Nora
COrtrite, John Reeves, G
Daily, CIV Sims, Mrs Rhoda
Dane, George Smith,
Freeman, Miss Jennie Smith, Olmstead
French, Mrs Nellie Smith, Sherman
GarrctsOn, J II Spraguc, l.
Gaylord. X Il Suits Maria
Harrington, Miss F--2 Stevans,
Hayes. Mrs Nellie Sturgeon, W a
Henton, Miss Emma Taylor, Hardin ID
Hide, Miss Eunia Thomas, Mrs Ivy
jackson, Miss Vina Twitchell, ID
johnson, Mrs Bessie Nandoren, John
Kelley, Joe II White, Henry
LOomis. WILCOX q w
Louis. Evan Wiley, X W
Lucas, Z
FOREIGN LETTERS.
Gibson, F L Williams, Daniel X.
NJ. BIRDSALL, P. NJ.
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Pertehea ina blizzard.

ATCHIsoN, Nov 3O.-Courtney
Dunn twelve year old boy who has
been missing since Saturday morning
was found dead near the fair grounds
last evening. The body was frozen stiff
and it is supposed he persisted in Satur-
DAVIS blizzard.
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with few obsta-
cles except almost
ceaseless rain,
mud everywhere,
and sw ollen
streams, tillChat-
tanooga and other
stations west OF
that point on the
railroad were
reached, W b e n
passage was taken
on different trains
TO Marietta, the
second place of
rendezvous agreed
on by us. Our,
story OF being OPP
pressed kentuck-
ians gained us
L....IA.nlA.
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broke out, and he
entered soon af-
forward on his
perilous business
as a spy for the
Federal army. To
the southerners
he repres ented
himself as their
friend, and car
ried over the Hne9
from the Union
side articles such
as quinine-oi
great value TO
theu-t.huS driy-
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Two OF our number, however, were sus-
pected, and as the readiest way out OF
their dilemma, Joined the Confederate
army-which we had all been expressly
authorized to do In case OF need, and
which was the easier now, as the ennsr~'''-
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INTRODUCTION

The following narrative is no "war ro-
nance" or ''story founded on fact" but
. genuine history, authenticated in every
part, OF real events far stranger and more
thrilling than any fiction. The facts were
Investigated at the time by the order OF
Edwin NJ. Stanton, secretary OF war, and
as q result the official war records, now
being published by government, contain
full proof OF every material allegation.
In the first series of that work, tenth vol
ume, part first, and beginning ON page
$50, will be found the Official reports Of
Judge Advocate General Holt, Mai. Gen.
Buell. and Col. Lee, Of Atlanta: together
with statements by surviving members of
the expedition and by Confederate Gems.
z Kirby Smith, Braxton Bragg, the
Confederate secretary Of war, Gen. Ran
dolph, and the president, Jefferson Davis,
with many others. / have used also my
own recollections and photographic notes
and dates, jotTed at the very time Of the
events, and am thus able to make a more
life like picture than would otherwise be
possible.
have only taken the liberty Of passing
more hastily over those events and ex-
plantations which, while necessary for a
full understanding OF the whole, are more
in the ordinary line Of military experience,
in order that more space be given to those
elements Of tragedy and thrilling adven-
ture in which this raid stands separate
and unrivaled among all the many heroic
deeds Of the terrible struggle for maintain
ing the American Union Not a single
fictitious incident or an establishment OF
fancy has been introduced. Wherever
conjectures as to unknown motives or in
cidents have been haZarded they are
clearly distinguished as such.
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achievement. There are times when
whole years OF intense enjoyment seem
condensed into a single moment. 1t was
so with us then.